It is a deciduous shrub or small tree, 4–6 m (13–20 ft) in height. The leaves color are green. Its leaves looks like a ferny leaves, each leaf having multiple leaflets that turn purple or orange color in autumn. It blooms white flowers in late spring to early summer. The fruits, which can last through winter, are crimson, turning to pale pink. They will be are eaten by birds when there is no other food supply nearby.

It is cultivate as an ornamental tree. In cultivation, this plant provides a long season of interest as an elegant, compact tree which can be grown in smaller gardens.

Like all Rowans the fruit can be cooked and used to make bitter jellies or marmalades.

Sorbus decora, commonly known as the Showy Mountain-ash also known as Dogberry. It is native to northeastern North America. It occurs throughout the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Mixedwood forest region, the New England-Acadian forest region, and the eastern Canadian boreal forests. It is a deciduous shrub or very small tree and the bark of an adult plant is thin and smooth

Showy Mountain-ash is very similar to the closely related American Mountain-ash. It grows up to 10 m (33 ft) in height and spread up to 8 m (26 ft). Like the American Mountain-ash (Sorbus americana), the Showy Mountain-ash has pinnately compound leaves and often large clusters of flowers and fruits. However, a useful distinguishing feature of this species is its shiny, sticky buds. The leaves are green above, paler beneath, 10–20 cm long and 6-12 board. The leaf blade is compound (made up of two or more discrete leaflets). There is one leaf per node along the stem, and the edge of the leaf blade has teeth. The color of the leaves change to red in autumn. It blooms white flowers in late spring to early summer. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Insects. The fruits color are red or orange. It is a pome 7–8 mm diameter, maturing in late autumn.

It is often cultivated as an ornamental plant for its cold-hardiness, its attractive flowers, and its large clusters of small red berry-like pomes. The fruits are an important source of food for wildlife, particularly birds in the winter and early spring.

It is a deciduous Shrub. It is grows 1 - 6 m (3.3-20 ft) in height and up to 10 cm in stem diameter. It usually has multiple stems with smooth yellowish to grayish-red bark and slender light brown twigs that are white-hairy when young. Winter buds are glutinous and glossy. The alternate leaves are 10 to 20 cm long, odd-pinnately compound with seven to 15 lanceolate leaflets that are nearly sessile, pointed, and serrate on the margins. It blooms white flowers in late spring to early summer. Inflorescence a large, pubescent, flat-topped panicle, with at least 70 flowers, with the 5 lobes triangular; petals 5, oval, 5-6 mm. Fruit sub-globose, fleshy, orange to scarlet, glossy, about 1 cm broad. Fruit - raw, cooked in pies, preserves etc. or dried for later use. A bitter flavor. The fruit becomes sweeter and so tastes best after a frost, it can also be bletted if it is going to be eaten raw. This involves storing the fruit in a cool dry place until it is almost but not quite going rotten. At this stage the fruit of many species has a delicious taste, somewhat like a luscious tropical fruit. The fruit is up to 5mm across.

It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree. It is growing to 6–16 m (20–52 ft) in height. The trunk of S. sargentiana grows up to 50 cm (20 in) in diameter, and a rounded crown. The bark is dark grey, and the shoots very stout, with large (1–2 cm), dark red, sticky resinous winter buds. The leaves are the largest of any rowan, dark green with impressed veining above, glaucous beneath, 20–35 cm (8–14 in) long and 15–20 cm (6–8 in) broad, with persistent 1 cm broad stipules. The pinnate leaves conisist of 9–11 oblong-lanceolate leaflets 5–14 cm (2–6 in) cm long and 3.5–5 cm (1–2 in) broad, with an acute apex, serrated margins. The basal leaflets are slightly smaller than the apical leaflets. They change to a rich orange-pink to purple or dark red in mid-autumn. It blooms in late spring to early summer. The flowers are 5–7 mm in diameter, with five white petals and 20 yellowish-white stamens; they are produced 200–500 together in very large corymbs 12–25 cm (5–10 in) in diameter. The fruit is a pome 5–8 mm diameter, bright orange-red to red, maturing in early autumn; it is juicy, and readily eaten as soon as it is ripe by thrushes, which disperse the seeds.

It is grown as an ornamental tree for its bold foliage, huge clusters of fruit, and bright autumn color. It is also cultivate in USA and Europe as an ornamental tree, in the park and garden.